Never let your actors go before they are satisfied with a scene.

I would like the film to make people think about the place of women in the world - the advances and setbacks that they have experienced these past years in terms of their freedom.

I would like people to be moved to act collectively, to militate.

Never lose sight of what you're trying to say, and remain open to what's happening while you're filming.

Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

God just has his own agenda, and he does what he wants to do with stuff.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

Being a physicist, not a philosopher, I have devised an entirely new theory of consciousness, allowing one to numerically calculate the level of consciounsess of humans and even animals.

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.